All posts for March 2012

You have a great idea for a new online service. Agencies have made beautiful designs for you and the road show is in progress… but somehow the stakeholders are not as enthusiastic as you are.
And here’s why.
The conceptual designs are not a...

While many enterprises may claim they care about innovation, very few of them are committed to do it or can inspire the culture of innovation. To explore the full potential of innovation, business leaders including product marketers, product...

There have been several surveys this year indicating that the spend in IT has shifted away from transactional applications towards information. Why is this? Part of the reason has to do with the acceptance that ERP solutions are, like SaaS, best...

Business Intelligence Competency Centers (BICC) are growing fast, according to a new survey by Capgemini Norway. Gartner defines a BICC as a cross functional team actively supporting and promoting the effective use of Business Intelligence...

I guess object relational mapping is an accepted paradigm for exchanging data between an object oriented domain layer and underlying databases. For most applications object relational mapping is more than sufficient. And if not, perhaps command query...

I was quoted a few times in the FT today around the topic of what the CFO should be worried about. I thought it might be worth expanding on a couple of things as they might help people trying to build their MDM business case.The first article is...

Image generated using browsersize.googlelabs.comIf you have been involved in procuring a website chances are you would have heard pitching web designers say something like:
“A screen resolution of 1024X768px ensures that your new website is...

With the Earth’s population hovering at the Seven Billion mark, there is pressing need for bigger, better, faster, and preferably cheaper, sources and versions of almost everything (e.g. food, energy and even computing power). This is just as acute...

As most of us know, majority of global marketers have geared up to increase the size of their marketing budgets for 2012 – A positive outlook from marketing leadership to adopt the new forms of technologies, where social being is looked as a...

What is Gamification.
There are many descriptions out there. I have described it in many ways myself. The simplest I have seen (or possibly made up) is this; the application of gaming metaphors to real life tasks to influence behaviour, improve...